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Article: Why we need foundational change in how we engage young people with the built environment_Building Design_November 2022

Article: MATT+FIONA picked for latest Kew treehouse commission_Architects Journal_April 2022

Article: Rejuvenation feature Financial Times_February 2022

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Introducing Let’s Build! the young people perfor

Introducing Let’s Build! the young people performance space @brxhousetheatre designed by local primary school children. Their design creates opportunities for play as well as performance, and places for members of the community to come together 💫

They’ll be building it 27-31 March. If you’d like to get involved and support them to make their performance space a reality, please complete the volunteer form in our bio. Thank you 🙏 Applications open until the end of January and we’ll be getting in touch after that - so if you’ve already applied, don’t worry, we’ll be in touch soon!

#letsbuild #brixtonhouse #youngpeople #youngpeopedesign #youngpeoplebuild #theatre #codesign #volunteer #dreamteam

Would you like to support children to build their

Would you like to support children to build their own performance space @brxhousetheatre in March? ✨

We’re finally making #LetsBuild a reality and we’re looking for volunteers to support the primary school children to bring their idea to life!

We’re looking for people who can give a day or more of their time wb 27th March with the children, and/or wb 20th March when we’ll be prepping the build.

For more information and/ or to register your interest, follow the Microsoft Form in our bio 💫

Lunch, snacks and travel expenses within London will be covered

#volunteer #letsbuild #communitybuild #communitytheatre

Do you teach or know someone who teaches KS2 prima

Do you teach or know someone who teaches KS2 primary children? We and @thebuildingcentre are offering FREE schools workshops on environmentally friendly, natural materials, called ‘Building a New World’ in February and March.

The practical, hands on workshops will draw on inspiration from the #Homegrown exhibition by @material_cultures and last approx. 40 minutes.

Follow the link in our bio for more information, or email Sandra Hedblad, Head of Education at the Built Environment Trust shedblad@buildingcentre.co.uk

Please share with teacher friends and parents 🙏

#environmentallyfriendly #materialculture #free #schoolworkshop #design #architecture #creativeworkshop

We are recruiting for a new Assistant Programme Ma

We are recruiting for a new Assistant Programme Manager 💫

Are you passionate about empowering young people to have a say in the shaping of their built environment? Are you proactive, engaged and interested in co-design and participatory methods?

Then get in touch! See the link in our bio for the full job description and how to apply.

Closing date midnight Monday 30th January. Good luck!

In the closing hours of 2022 we just want to thank

In the closing hours of 2022 we just want to thank you all for your support this year, and to wish you a very happy & creative new year! 🥳✨💫

Thank you to all our collaborators who helped us r

Thank you to all our collaborators who helped us reach nearly 1000 young people! Special thanks to our Industry Champions @buro_happold @happoldfoundation & @jesticowhiles, everyone who has volunteered with us and of course our small but incredible team @lucyeccles90 @rosiemurphy.me @georgepope227 and @jess_mulvey 🙌

#yearinnumbers #thankyou

Can you guess where our tree came from this year?🤔⚡️💡

Seasons greetings & a very happy new year to you, from everyone @matt_and_fiona 🎄✨

Calling all 11-24 year olds! Do you want to design

Calling all 11-24 year olds! Do you want to design a better London, a cleaner, greener, happier place for communities? Find out about the #DesignFutureLondon challenge by clicking the link in our bio.

MATT+FIONA were proud to support @mayorofldn @mobiehomefutures and @turfprojects to launch the challenge at Croydon’s Braithwaite Hall earlier in November through a workshop for 90 young Londoners, resources and training. Exciting project led by @rosiemurphy.me

We hope you’ll take part, or let other young Londoners know to take part 💫

@mayorofldn @mrgeorgeclarke @yourcroydon @c40cities

📣 New team member! We’re delighted to be join

📣 New team member! We’re delighted to be joined by George Pope 💫

George is our new Programme Coordinator and will be supporting across all M+F programmes & activities, as well as strategy.

He started his career in the publishing sector before joining us, engaging with architecture and the built environment first as a hobby which then turned into a passion. Having volunteered with VSO Cambodia on a youth engagement programme in 2020, he unites these two strands in his work with us.

We’re excited to be working with him, and in typical M+F style, launched him into a build on his second day. He passed with flying colours ☺️

💡 Protobuilding 💡 the design for the young p

💡 Protobuilding 💡 the design for the young people’s performance space @brxhousetheatre 💫🖇️📦✂️🎊
#letsbuild

So happy to be back @brxhousetheatre reigniting #l

So happy to be back @brxhousetheatre reigniting #letsbuild the young people’s performance space we were due to build in April 2020 💥

Yesterday we met the new group of primary school children who will be taking over & making the previous ideas their own, ready to build in March.

Here they are testing out different performances with the structures in various formations.

Brilliant workshop led by @lucyeccles90 and supported by @rosiemurphy.me @georgepope227 and Lauren from @jesticowhiles

Thanks to our industry champions @jesticowhiles @buro_happold and @happoldfoundation for making projects like this happen 🙌

#letsbuild #makespace #performancespace #brixton #brixtonhouse

Young people will inherit the spaces being created

Young people will inherit the spaces being created now, and yet rarely have a say. CONNECT supports local authorities, clients and design teams to ensure young people’s ideas are brought to the table and listened to in meaningful ways

Film by Craig Palmer and Gerry Hughes @buro_happold

#BuildLearnConnect #codesign #listening #meaningfulexchange

LEARN shares the BUILD process with teachers, yout

LEARN shares the BUILD process with teachers, youth workers & built environment professionals, to enable more children and young people to have the opportunity to shape their world.

#BuildLearnConnect #empowerteachers #empoweryoungpeople

🎥 by Craig Palmer & Gerry Hughes @buro_happold

Introducing BUILD, our unique process of asking yo

Introducing BUILD, our unique process of asking young people to set the brief for the places they inhabit, design them, and ultimately build them 👷🏽‍♀️👷🏿‍♂️👷🏼
#build #empoweryoungpeople

Film made by Craig Palmer and Gerry Hughes @buro_happold

Last night we launched #BuildLearnConnect our new

Last night we launched #BuildLearnConnect our new strategy to reach many more young people.

We were privileged to hear from Nida and Fatimah, two incredible young people from the Mayfair Youth Forum, from @carlkonadu at @2_3degrees, Kemi Hassan from @ucl, @athina_stylianidi from @jesticowhiles and Franck Robert @buro_happold. Thank you @francescaperry_ for chairing the wonderful panel.

Huge thanks to our brilliant team @lucyeccles90 @rosiemurphy.me @jess_mulvey Sarah Yates and Claire Curtice for making it happen, and thank you to the Kings Cross Construction Skills Centre for hosting us ✨

Photos by Kes-Tchaas Eccleston

If you add up how many young people have the oppor

If you add up how many young people have the opportunity to learn about their built environment (almost exclusively thanks to grassroots organisations and programmes) it is likely we are only reaching 1% of children in the UK. We think this needs to change. Read our comment piece in today’s @_bdonline_ via the link in our bio.

Solidarity to everyone doing their best to support young people including @placed_ed @beyondtheboxconsultants @opencityaccelerate @poor_collective @resolvecollective @urban_learners @yesmakeldn @build_up_foundation @archimakeorg @ardaghyoungcreatives & many others

Thank you for inviting us Ben Flatman 🙌

What do future places for young people look like i

What do future places for young people look like in Lea Bridge?

We are delighted to be working with local students and Waltham Forest Council to uncover ideas for spaces and places for young people in the area.

See link in bio for more information

#youngpeople #spacesforall #intergenerational #design #publicrealm #codesign

#LREF @nlalondon schools outreach in the @barbican

#LREF @nlalondon schools outreach in the @barbicancentre conservatory exploring spaces for the future of work 🌿📐📦🪴🪷✏️📏

Thank you to the ever creative Grace Simmonds @grsimmo for inviting us to be part of the outreach, and to Sophie Roberts @soph_robs for all her fantastic help. And thanks as ever to our Industry Champions @buro_happold @happoldfoundation & @jesticowhiles and our wonderful team @lucyeccles90 and @rosiemurphy.me

#futureofwork #nextgen #youngpeople

"The idea of what we do seems to capture the imagi

"The idea of what we do seems to capture the imaginations of a lot of educators who work with young people traditionally on the margins, like the young people we work with in Hull who've been excluded from mainstream school. Their teachers saw the impact a project like this could make - how important art and design are in helping to make sense of the world."

We share some thoughts about why young people should be able to shape their built environment in an interview with Isla Sutherland in @architecture_au ahead of our @designspeaks_au talk on 19 October (Australian time but if you’re up early in the U.K. why not join us?!) Link to article and talk in bio

Excited to share that the Phoenix Playground Struc

Excited to share that the Phoenix Playground Structure - designed and built by young people with autism for their school with their wonderful teachers @amandabensonstudio and Paula Farley - is a finalist in the @realplaycoalition Real Play City Challenge! Grateful to be on a shortlist with some amazing projects.
Holding space for genuine youth empowerment, co-design and co-fabrication is never easy so awards like this mean a huge amount. It also always inspires us to see what else is happening in this world and to take huge energy from the momentum building 💥
Thank you to everyone involved in this project pre pandemic, not least the project managers Alex Taylor @alex.taylor.archi Kate Slattery @keslatts and Milly Wood @millykwood and all the incredible volunteers

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